I see that Amir Taaki has 0 commits to the repository (but a few pull requests) and therefore makes sense that he is removed from the developer list in that regard.

How come only a select few of the developers that DO have commits are listed on the main page? What is the procedure necessary to deserve accreditation or recognition? Perhaps it may be useful to have a page on the site that credits everyone that has contributed so that each person may deserve their fair share of recognition for their contributions?

It would be exciting if contributions were displayed similarly. Bitcoin is open source community effort. Contributors should deserve better support/recognition for their contributions. Currently only a select few are gaining recognition and attention from being listed at bitcoin.org home page.

Regarding the additional repos referenced above (as well as all other bitcoin-related repos), would it make sense to include on the home page committers from each additional repo (see above) or would it be better to preserve only using the single http://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin repo? Perhaps if listing only commiters of the single http://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin repo on the home page, then a link directly below it to a list of additional repos could be included that also lists committers of those additional repos?

I guess I also need to get closed pull requests and categorize developers into those who make commits and those who make pulls, right?

This is obviously too slow to be done on every page load, so the ideal solution would be to run it by cron from time to time and store stats in a database.Then display them from the database on each page load.

Do you have a database installed at bitcoin.org? It can be done through files, but database is more reliable and flexible than files.

Alexz: Wouldn't it be easier to just use the "git shortlog" command? It can show the commit count per author (see my previous post).

The only problem is that the same author can appear under different names (e.g. in the output above: s_nakamoto, Satoshi Nakamoto and --author=Satoshi Nakamoto (which was some command line mistake im sure )). The .mailmap feature might be able to solve this though. See bottom of http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-shortlog.html

Looks like someone did that and it now includes people who didn't contribute a single line of code to the satoshi client (which the little box is all about).

hmm, perhaps the Bitcoin article should be renamed to Bitcoin client to reflect that it is about the client and not about Bitcoin? -or- split the article into two, one about the satoshi client and another about Bitcoin in general? That should prevent confusion regarding names of people since there are many separate developments for bitcoin in which all such developments are developed by developers.

Looks like someone did that and it now includes people who didn't contribute a single line of code to the satoshi client (which the little box is all about).

hmm, perhaps the Bitcoin article should be renamed to Bitcoin client to reflect that it is about the client and not about Bitcoin? -or- split the article into two, one about the satoshi client and another about Bitcoin in general? That should prevent confusion regarding names of people since there are many separate developments for bitcoin in which all such developments are developed by developers.

Actually, the article probably should be about the concept/protocol/network, and not the client. What makes the Satoshi client notable? Pretty sure all the notable sources talk about Bitcoin itself, not some client.

I see Wladimir J. van der Laan - laanwj@gmail.com was added. Will the bitcoin.org site ever give recognition to all developers that have contributed to the bitcoin.org bitcoin release or only provide recognition to a select few that have been privileged/accepted?

if I made any mistakes or missed any, feel free to correct, however, I think these examples are useful to better explain my concern for better crediting those that deserve credit if any credit is documented/publicized at all.

I added bitcoin twice after being pointed out that there is a second page that credits contributors.